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United States Patent 3,266,651 ACCEDENT PREVENTING BOTTLE CAP Waiter V.Triglavcanin, 22 Drury Lane, Weston, Ontario, Canada Filed May 14, 1964,Ser. No. 367,496 4 Claims. (Cl. 215-9) This invention relates to asafety device for bottles.

The object of this invention is to protect children from poisoning bymeans of an accident preventing bottle cap to be used on bottlescontaining poisonous fluid or any other substances.

This invention will provide bottles with a safety device which caneasily be removed by adults but cannot be removed by small children.

A further object of this invention isits easy application to existingbottles.

This invention is shown in the accompanying drawings wherein:

FIGURE 1 is a section of the line II of FIG. 2;

FIG. 2 is a section IIII of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged section of the releasing device;

FIG. 4 is a section of the line IVIV of FIG. 2;

FIGURE 5 is an enlarged plan view of the releasing device;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged section VI-VI of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged section VII-VII of FIG. 4.

The accident preventing bottle cap consists of a removable cap A and aseat B.

The removable cap A comprises: casing 1, stopping ring 2, perimetercasing groove 3, spring tightening screw with Washer and nut 4, guidingplate 5, contact guides 6, leaf springs 7, push buttons 8, and flexiblecovering 9.

Seat B consists of: interlocking ring 10, contact rubber heads 11,attaching screws 12, compressible gasket 30, 13, and peripheral stopgroove 14.

The radially placed rubber-headed attaching screws, shown by the numeral12, are used for fastening the seat B to the throat of the bottle. Theinside of the upper part of the interlocking ring is shaped to interlockthe leaf springs 7 of the removable cap A. A perforated compressiblegasket 13 sits in the peripheral stop groove 14 to function as a spring.

On the inside of the removable cap leaf springs 7 are attachedsymmetrically by the guiding plate 5 and spring tightening screw,washer, and nut 4. On the outside of the removable cap A pushbuttons 8are located radially to the centre. Said pushbuttons are hidden by aflexible covering 9 which is pressed tightly into the perimeter casinggrooves 3.

In order to attach the accident preventing bottle cap to the bottle theseat B has to be fastened to the bottle neck by tightening therubber-headed 11 screws 12 below the existing ordinary bottle cap. Saidseat remains fastened to the bottle at all times while the removable capA must be removed in order to reach the ordinary bottle cap.

Seat B can be made without rubber-headed 11 screws 12 if said seat isincorporated in the bottle neck.

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The removable cap A can be interlocked with the seat B by slightdownward pressure on the cap whereupon leaf springs 7 will be forcedtowards the centre and will slide towards the inside groove ofinterlocking ring 10. When the bottom rim of cap A reaches gasket 13additional pressure shoulde be applied compressing gasket and allowingspring 7 to interlock with interlocking ring 10. Removable cap A is nowsitting in the locked position and the interlocking springs 7 resist anypulling force, preventing the lifting ofl? of removable cap A.

To remove cap A reverse pressure should be applied e.g. instead ofpulling off the cap, it should be pressed down. At the same time all thepushbuttons have to be depressed by pressure on the flexible coveringwhereupon the inside end of the button Will press the spring in a radialdirection and thereby spring 7 will be released over the top of theinterlocking groove seat and the removable cap A can be lifted up.

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property orprivilege is claimed are defined as follow:

1. An accident preventing bottle cap for a bottle and the like having orbeing without an ordinary bottle cap, which accident preventing bottlecap comprises: a removable cap having internally located and outwardlyprotracting V-shaped locking springs leaned on and released bypushbutton, and a locking seat internally shaped to interlock with saidlocking springs, said locking seat being adapted to be fastened to theneck of said bottle or to be incorporated in the neck of said bottle.

2. An accident preventing bottle cap as defined in claim 1 in which theremovable cap has pushbuttons on the perimeter of its casing radiallylocated and hidden by a flexible covering whereby said pushbuttons havethe function to release the locking springs and thereby disconnect theremovable cap from the interlocking seat.

3. An accident preventing bottle cap as mentioned in claim 1 in whichthe removable cap has internally located and outwardly protractingV-shaped locking springs, leaned on and released by pushbuttons, tointerlock said cap to said seat by outward movement of said springs.

4. An accident preventing bottle cap as defined in claim 1 in which theloclding seat has on the outside in a peripheral stop groove acompressible gasket to function as a spring by uplifting removable capand thereby interlocking springs of removable cap to interlocking seat.

References Cited by the Examiner FOREIGN PATENTS 677,311 8/ 1952 GreatBritain.

THERON E. CONDON, Primary Examiner.

FRANKLIN T. GARRETT, GEORGE O. RALSTON,

LOUIS G. MANCENE, Examiners.

J. B. MARBERT, Assistant Examiner.

1. AN ACCIDENT PREVENTING BOTTLE CAP FOR A BOTTLE AND THE LIKE HAVING ORBEING WITHOUT AN ORDINARY BOTTLE CAP, WHICH ACCIDENT PREVENTING BOTTLECAP COMPRISES: A REMOVABLE CAP HAVING INTERNALLY LOCATED AND OUTWARDLYPROTRACTING V-SHAPED LOCKING SPRINGS LEANED ON AND RELEASED BYPUSHBUTTON, AND A LOCKING SEAT INTERNALLY SHAPED TO INTERLOCK WITH SAIDLOCKING SPRINGS, SAID LOCKING SEAT BEING ADAPTED TO BE FASTENED TO THENECK OF SAID BOTTLE OR TO BE INCORPORATED IN THE NECK OF SAID BOTTLE.